Changdao is a county under the jurisdiction of Yantai City, Shandong Province, the only island county in Shandong Province, or China's "scallop town", where scallop farming area is very wide, from south to north of the ten inhabited islands around the waters have a large scale scallop farming area.
At the end of the last century, Long Island set up a "ploughing the sea, animal husbandry, fishing to build a treasure island, work together to get rich" goal, the fishing village economy continues to grow, fishermen's income steadily increased, after decades of experience and exploration, technical improvement and variety improvement, scallop farming production based on the sea pasture has a considerable scale, Long Island has become an important scallop breeding base in northern China.
Long Island scallop farming is mostly the use of wild environment nursery way, every year around August 10 is the scallop spawning season, the islanders call it foaming, they will be very small mesh bags hanging on the breeding rack around the old scallops, the output of scallop eggs attached to the mesh bags, about twenty days or so, they will take back the mesh bags, the inside of the poured out such as small fingernails the size of small shells is scallop seedlings.
The Long Island scallop seedlings are loaded into the "temporary cage", grown in the sea for about two months, and then picked up and loaded into the "long cage", until the next spring and summer are ripe for harvest, and it is the best time to officially taste the scallops.
For ordinary people, Long Island scallops are an indispensable delicacy on the table, and the nutritional value is overflowing.
Scallops contain a dale 7-cholesterol and 24-methylene cholesterol that have the effect of lowering serum cholesterol, which have the unique effect of inhibiting cholesterol synthesis in the liver and accelerating the excretion of cholesterol, thereby reducing cholesterol in the body, and the efficacy is stronger than the commonly used cholesterol-lowering drug sitosterol. After eating shellfish, there is often a refreshing and pleasant feeling, which is undoubtedly beneficial for relieving some of the symptoms of annoyance.
Long Island scallops are not only naturally pollution-free, but also quite nutritious, you may wish to try it yourself and try it